MEAL Assistant- UN OCHA funded multi sectoral project

Job Description

Title: MEAL Assistant- UN OCHA funded multi sectoral project

Company Name: Friends in Village Development Bangladesh (FIVDB)

Vacancy: --

Age: 25 to 30 years

Job Location: Cox`s Bazar (Teknaf)

Salary: Negotiable

Experience:

• At least 3 years
• The applicants should have experience in the following business area(s): NGO

• Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Economics, Statistics, Development Studies
• Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) in Management

• At least 3 years
• The applicants should have experience in the following business area(s): NGO

• Age 25 to 30 years

Job Context:

Friends in Village Development Bangladesh (FIVDB) is going to implement a multi-sectoral project, “Ensuring continued access to immediate lifesaving integrated primary health, WASH and protection services for the Rohingya refugees in Camps 26 and 27, Nhila Union, Teknaf”, delivered as a partner of a consortium led by Tdh Bangladesh. The project will address critical GBV, health, and hygiene-related issues through various prevention and response interventions – community mobilization focusing on protection, Health/Nutrition through an outreach team, GBV Emergency Case Management, structured MHPSS, Youth-led community protection initiatives, and structured Girl Shine and EMB sessions.

The MEAL Assistant is responsible for the delivery and management of technical expertise, ensuring high quality and timely inputs, and for ensuring the standard of project activities and its strategic vision for attaining project objectives and goals result in the achievement of its intended outputs in a cost-effective and timely manner. S/he will be responsible for leading the activities of MEAL through planning, implementing and managing the delivery of policies, reports, knowledge of services and other results approved in the project document or periodical/annual work plans. S/he will also closely work with the operations unit at Cox's Bazar, different clusters, including the protection working group, UN agencies, relevant government officials, the private sector, non-government and civil society organizations.

Key Responsibilities:

• Ensure quality monitoring and documentation at the program level and build a nationwide system that captures and presents results.

• Develop MEAL Plan based on the Result Framework and Detailed Implementation Plan (DIP).

• Contribute to the review and development of global and sartorial monitoring and evaluation plans and strategies, ensuring cross-cutting issues are well integrated.

• Design tools and SOP aimed at monitoring project activities implementation against the work plan and logical framework, ensuring that programs have SMART (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic and Time-bound) indicators.

• Support programme coordinator, team leader, and finance officer with data analysis and the production of high-quality, evidence-based, donor-compliant reports (monthly, quarterly, annual and final) and documentation promptly to accurately reflect field-level conditions and programming progress.

• Ensure the on-time execution of project monitoring, accountability (to both donors and beneficiaries).

• Ensure timely execution of evaluation events, including but not limited to needs assessments, baseline surveys, audits, final evaluations, data quality audits, and field supervision.

• Train, support or participate in baseline assessments to inform program design, the scope of Work for evaluation teams.

• Conduct regular data quality checks, including field visits and spot checks, to ensure accurate and reliable data collection and reporting.

• Provide training and assistance to develop staff skills in participatory and qualitative design, monitoring approaches, and implement realistic monitoring plans that capture quantitative and qualitative data for comparison against a project's targets.

• Work with program coordination to support and train staff in applying lessons learned, case studies and follow up on progress through monitoring and providing ongoing support.

• Carry out daily monitoring visits, focus group discussions, participatory assessments, key informant interviews, information collection and management plans and standards, ensuring appropriate treatment of sensitive information and providing real-time feedback to align with project goals.

• Coordinate joint field visits with the program team to support quality assurance and resolve any issues.

• Assess individual protection issues captured or identified during daily activities and make appropriate referrals for services to humanitarian or other actors as per the referral pathway or best practices.

• Set up a functioning Complaints and Response Mechanism.

• Maintain organized and up-to-date evidence and proper documentation, and securely store any protected data collected (hard and soft copies).

• Ensure adherence to ethical standards in data collection and reporting.

• Complete daily reporting on findings.

• Support in the recruitment and onboarding of project staff, volunteers and any incentive workers.

• Manage the MEAL-specific schedules, timelines, budgets, and forms, aligning all activities within the working area in line with the Workplan.

• Ensure the Feedback Complaint Response Mechanism (FCRM) is functional and accessible to beneficiaries.

• Weekly 2 holidays

• Other benefits as per FIVDB HR policy and the approved project budget